Okay, so “everyone” says that hardware is redundant – plug-ins are the way to go, hardware is just extra money for stuff that looks nice, but you could emulate just as well with a computer, right? Wrong. Well, sort of.

You see, hardware often has side-effects. A little bit of extra warmth, excitation or (the word to use where you can’t quite tell what it’s done, but it sounds better) character. Digital plug-ins don’t generally have the same happy accidents when recording with them.

So, without further ado, I present the top 5 pieces of hardware to add that all important character to your sounds… Continue reading »

Just when you think it is dead and gone, it rises up again with more subgenres attacking you from all sides with obscure melodic interpretations on top of the driving percussion. There is no stopping the DnB Hydra.